noel yu-jen

Noel Yu-Jen is a writer-musician born and raised on the California coast. She received her B.A. in Spanish from Princeton University, where her thesis: DIÓJUÀ (or Mai travels through Nepantla…and not back) received the Theodore H. Holmes ‘51 & Bernice Holmes Poetry Prize, and was the Grace May Tilton Prize for Fine Arts’ Honorable Mention.

She is a Best New Poets 2024 Nominee, a 2022 June Poets Fellow at the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts, and a 2023 Roots. Wounds. Words. Poetry Fellow. She is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing at the University of Virginia.

Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Sewanee Review, West Branch, diode poetry, and ghost city review, among others.